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Admission by prior arrangement, Mon-Fri only; free; tel 02 512 29 68. Metro: Trone . The Musee Camille Lemonnier , a short walk east of St Boniface at chaussee de Waver 150, is dedicated to the eponymous Belgian intellectual, writer, dramatist and essayist, who was an influential member of the city's cultural elite for almost fifty years. A sharp-witted Francophone, Lemonnier (1844-1913) started out writing for a literary review, the Journal des Artistiques , and subsequently turned his hand to novels, books of art criticism - including the Histoire de Beaux-Arts en Belgique (1887) - and political texts. There were also monographs on the artists of the day - for instance Henri de Braekeleer, Alfred Stevens and Constantin Meunier - as well as oodles of stuff on the avant-garde Les XX. Inevitably, Lemonnier`'s acid tongue created hostility and bitter arguments punctuated his career, most disagreeably with James Ensor. Set up by Camille's daughter Louise in 1946, the museum is housed in an attractive late nineteenth-century building and holds an eclectic collection of objets d'art , everything from sculptures and paintings to gilded books. In the main room upstairs are paintings by Louise, hanging alongside portraits of her father by Emile Claus, Constantin Meunier and Isidore Verheyden. Other paintings of note include The Fair by Victor Gilsoul, and the bleak Hunter in the Snow by Emile Verheyden, Lemonnier's cousin. The finest of the sculptures are The Foolish Song by Jef Lambeaux and Eternal Spring by Auguste Rodin.
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